Anybody who knows me knows I hate identity politics.
I’m going to tell you why you should hate it too. I’m going to incite racial-identity-politics-hatred (geddit?), and other kinds of identity-politics-hatred as well.
…by promoting R as an identifier you may encourage people to use R as a signal for group formation.
Humans like to divide [...]

I’ve just read the full text of the speech that David Cameron gave on Tuesday. I like it. It is in fact very good indeed: libertarian and decentralizing in its tone, punchy in its delivery.
But in Britain today a growing culture of rule-following, box-ticking and central prescription robs people of the chance to [...]

China is building what is billed as its first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors.
Due to open in Chongqing in October, Love Land will include displays of giant genitalia, naked bodies and an exhibition on the history of sex.
The park will also offer sex [...]

You’ve got to feel sorry for Carrie Prejean. She dared to express a view – opposition to gay marriage – that is shared by the majority of Americans and by her president. For this she has been vilified and harassed.
Turns out she has had semi-naked photographs of herself wearing pink panties taken when [...]

From the comments thread of a Will Hutton article in the Observer we have:
I’ll tell y’all what’s fair
The have a lots need 2 share
They need 2 put aside their greed
And give more 2 those who need
The problems lie with the rich
While poor folk sleep in a ditch
The wealthy lead a luxury life
While others drown in [...]

Hazel Blears (via Dale):
Family Intervention Projects cost up to £15,000 per family, with a dedicated social work team getting the family up in the morning, ensuring everyone is washed and dressed, getting the kids to do their homework, and making sure they go to bed at a reasonable time. But the cost of not intervening [...]

Adrian Hamilton has a despicable and quite bizarre article in the Independent today. It’s title “walking out on Ahmadinejad was just plain childish” and is so insane it bears repeating, just to emphasize the sheer strength of the vicious bile-filled hatred of Israel that has grown wart-like on the disfigured body politic of the [...]

A year ago I noted (via Zombietime) the attempt by the marine recruiting office in Berkeley to communicate with protestors.

A year later, (again via zombie) protestors have given their response.  I think you’ll agree that it’s very clever.
I’d like to say that sick, sick people do this kind of thing but that would be too [...]

I’ve commented before on the idiocy of government thinking on rape.   In fact I used the parable of Jordan and Peter Andre to make the point.
Turns out it isn’t just the government with a shaky understanding of the rule of law, but also BBC employees and ‘rape campaigners’.
From the Today programme this morning:
Interviewer:
and your argument [...]

Some translation errors may have crept in at the EUobserver:
Just say No to abstinence
Meanwhile, the European Commission is hoping to convince young people to say “No” to abstinence.
The EU executive has hooked up with MTV to launch an EU-wide campaign similar to the music channel’s celebrated “Rock the Vote” initiative in the US to urge [...]